For more than a century, the idea that life might have arrived on our planet from elsewhere in the cosmos sat at the fringes ...

NASA has taken a bold step in the search for alien life beyond Earth. The space agency announced the selection of seven ...

Scientists have identified an unexpected way to study the hidden space weather of distant stars by observing strange, ...

"It was just a matter of time before we found them." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Thirty years ago, on Oct. 6, 1995, the very ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

An ocean world that's teeming with microbes — and who knows what other kinds of life — is currently the best explanation for some chemical signatures that the James Webb Space Telescope has spotted in ...

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a unique planet in another star system that’s shaped like a lemon. The lopsided Jupiter-style planet is so bizarre that it may blur the ...

Exoplanet TOI-561 b is the closest of four worlds orbiting a 10-billion-year-old G-type star roughly 280 light-years from Earth. - NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf Crawford illustration NASA’s James Webb Space ...

Those concerned that 3I/ATLAS' arrival to our solar system meant that some sort of alien invasion was imminent can breathe a ...